We all share the same hopes and dreams:

To live a full and productive life

To be free of want and fear

To know love

To prosper

To leave a legacy that outlasts us

There is work to be done

Too many live lives of desperation

Of deprivation

Fear

Too many are threatened

With bigotry

Hatred

Violence

Death

And where injustice occurs for one

It occurs for all of us

There is work to be done

To right the wrongs of our society

To realize true liberty and equality

To end want and suffering

To reject violence and bigotry and hate

To enable each, and all, to attain

The blessings of freedom and peace

To love one another

Where shall we find the answers to these challenges?

They are in each and every one of us

In the recognition that we all want the same things

And that life is not a competition in their attainment

But rather a collective effort to ensure all achieve them

Viewing this, not as an intellectual exercise

But rather as the hard, daily effort of life

Lived beyond just ourselves

For the betterment of all

There is work to be done

We must stand up

And stand together

And we need to start now

Today

For we have waited far too long

The time is past come

There is work to be done

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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